Privacy Statement

The Planned Giving Design Center takes your privacy seriously.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how the Planned Giving Design Center, LLC ("PGDC") and its hosting organizations
("Hosts") treat personal information we collect and receive, including
your use of the site. Personal information is information about you
that you shared when you register on the site.­

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that PGDC
or Hosts do not own or control or to people that PGDC or Hosts do not
employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

PGDC collects personal information when you register, when you
visit the PGDC web site, and from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name,
address, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation. Once
you register with the PGDC and login to our services, you are not
anonymous to us.

PGDC uses cookies for the following general purposes: to enable
you to login automatically each time you visit the site, contact you,
and conduct research about areas of the site our members find of
interest.

It is important to note that if you have your browser set to
"reject all cookies," you will not be able to register on the PGDC and
will thereby be unable to take advantage of its valuable community features.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

PGDC may display targeted advertisements from site sponsors
who help hosts underwrite the cost of providing the PGDC to you free of
charge. However, none of your personal information is shared with such
sponsors. Nor does PGDC provide any personal information to the
advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. Likewise, if a
new product or service becomes available on the PGDC, we will share
information with you about the product or service and provide you with
an opportunity to contact the provider via link; however, we will not
provide your information to the product or service provider.

PGDC and its Hosts do not rent, sell, or share personal
information about you with other people, or nonaffiliated companies or
organizations.

PGDC and its Hosts respond to subpoenas, court orders, and legal
process; and to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend
against legal claims.

In the event the PGDC is acquired by or merged with another
company, your registration information may be transferred; however,
PGDC will notify you before information about you is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Confidentiality and Security

PGDC limits access to personal information about you to employees
who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that
information to provide products or services to you or in order to do
their jobs.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

PGDC may update this policy. We will notify you about significant
changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to
the primary email address specified in your PGDC account or by placing
a prominent notice on our site.

The Planned Giving Design Center web site is hosted by more than 150
organizations in geographically exclusive areas throughout the United
States. These organizations include not-for-profit organizations and
for-profit companies. Regardless of type, these organizations provide
you with one very important benefit -- the ability to access content
from the PGDC completely free of charge! Hosts of PGDCs with which you
are registered and subscribed have access to your personal information
and may contact you periodically to share information about their
organization and the services they provide to gift planners. Without
Hosts your subscription to the PGDC would cost about $300 per year.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an
anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web
site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Each web site you visit can send its own cookie to your browser if
your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your
browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already
sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Choices about Cookies

You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all
cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies,
you will not be able to register on the PGDC and will be unable to take
advantage of its community features.

PGDC's Practices Regarding Cookies

PGDC uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including:

accessing your information when you "login" so we can provide you with customized content;

keeping track of preferences you specify while you are using the
PGDC (for example, the ability to login automatically without having to
enter your username and password each time you visit the site. When you
select the "remember me" option on logging in, anyone at this computer
to be automatically logged in upon visiting the PGDC). You can delete
this cookie at any time by choosing the "logout" link;

keeping track of polls and surveys we may conduct on the site (so we don't bother you by asking the same question twice);

estimating and reporting our total audience size and traffic to our Hosts; and

conducting research regarding site usage to improve PGDC content and services.

Other Companies' Cookies on PGDC

Please note that PGDC allows sponsors that are presenting
advertisements to set and access their cookies on your computer.
However, this only happens if you have clicked through onto their web
sites.

Sponsors' use of their own cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the PGDC Privacy Policy.

A sponsor is a for-profit company or not-for-profit organization
that helps Hosts underwrite the cost of bringing the PGDC to you free
of charge. Sponsors have made a commitment to the quality of gift
planning in their communities via their important financial support and
we encourage you to visit their web sites to review the unique products
and/or services they offer.